Preparation method of graphene-alumina porous composite material capable of being used as capacitive deionization electrode
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of porous materials, in particular to a preparation method of a graphene-alumina porous composite material capable of being used as a capacitive deionization electrode.
Background
With the increasing global population and the continuous development of industry, the shortage of fresh water resources has become a significant problem facing the world. Desalination of sea water is one of the effective methods to alleviate the above problems. The desalination of sea water and brackish water requires high-efficiency ion removal (desalination) technology, and compared with the traditional desalination technology, the capacitance deionization technology has the outstanding technical advantages of high water resource utilization rate, low energy consumption, easy operation, easy regeneration of electrodes and the like, so that the capacitance deionization technology is paid much attention to the fields of desalination and the like.
Currently, for capacitive deionization technology, the structural performance characteristics of the electrode material are particularly critical to the desalination efficiency. Generally, the electrode material used for capacitive deionization should have the characteristics of good conductivity, large specific surface area, reasonable pore structure and the like. Graphene, as a novel advanced carbon material, has a large theoretical specific surface area (about 2630 m)2The specific surface area of the material is/g), the conductivity is high, and other excellent physical and chemical properties make the material show great application and development prospects in the technical field of capacitive deionization. However, in the current stage of graphene electrode materials, there are, for example: the stacking of sheets is easy to happen, so that the specific surface area of the sheets is reduced, the mechanical strength is low, the technical threshold of regulating and controlling the internal pore structure of the sheets and the preparation cost are high, and the like, thereby being not beneficial to the large-scale popularization and application of the graphene material in the capacitive deionization technology.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to overcome the defects of the prior art and provide a preparation method of a graphene-alumina porous composite material which has simple process, low cost and easily controlled operation conditions and can be used as a capacitive deionization electrode.
The purpose of the invention is realized by the following technical scheme:
the invention provides a preparation method of a graphene-alumina porous composite material capable of being used as a capacitive deionization electrode, which comprises the following steps:
(1) adding ammonium bicarbonate or ammonium carbonate into graphene oxide dispersion liquid with the concentration of 0.05-0.15 g/L for dissolving to form mixed slurry with the ammonium bicarbonate or ammonium carbonate content of 1-3 wt%;
(2) coating the mixed slurry on the inner and outer surfaces of the porous alumina sheet by adopting a vacuum coating process, then carrying out heat treatment, and repeating coating-heat treatment to obtain the graphene oxide-alumina porous composite material;
(3) and carrying out thermal reduction on the graphene oxide-aluminum oxide porous composite material in a hydrogen atmosphere to obtain the graphene oxide-aluminum oxide porous composite material which can be used as a capacitive deionization electrode.
Furthermore, the particle size of the graphene oxide is 50-200 nm. The most probable pore diameter of the porous alumina sheet is 1-2 mu m, and the porosity is 30-35%.
Further, the processing time of the vacuum coating in the step (2) is 20-30 min; heat treatment is carried out for 2-3 h at the temperature of 95-100 ℃; the number of times of repeating the coating-heat treatment is 5 to 10. The temperature of the thermal reduction treatment in the step (3) is 900-1000 ℃, and the treatment time is 24-36 h. And (4) the resistance of the thermally reduced graphene in the step (3) is 150-200 omega.
The graphene-alumina porous composite material prepared by the invention is subjected to silver screen coating on one surface, two pieces of the graphene-alumina porous composite material are respectively marked as a positive electrode and a negative electrode and are connected with a lead to form the graphene-alumina porous composite electrode, and the graphene-alumina porous composite electrode is suitable for a direct-current power supply with the voltage of 0.6-1.2V.
The invention has the following beneficial effects:
(1) the graphene-alumina porous composite material is prepared by taking a porous alumina material as a framework and taking mixed slurry of graphene oxide dispersion liquid and ammonium bicarbonate or ammonium carbonate as raw materials through a vacuum coating-heat treatment-thermal reduction process, and has a high specific surface area (260-300 m)2The conductive polymer has the advantages of a good pore structure (porosity of 30-35 percent), a good mechanical strength (flexural strength of 23-28 MPa), good conductivity (resistance of 150-200 omega) and low preparation cost, and has excellent effect on ions of multiple valence states in a solution when being used as an adsorption electrode of a capacitive deionization deviceGood removal performance (for Na)+、K+、Ca2+The adsorption rates of (a) are 8 to 35%, 6 to 30%, and 4.5 to 10%, respectively).
(2) The preparation method has the advantages of simple process, low cost, excellent performance, easily controlled operation conditions and the like, and has wide application prospect in the fields of seawater desalination, salt-containing wastewater treatment and the like.
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The invention will now be described in further detail with reference to the following examples and the accompanying drawings:
fig. 1 is a microscopic structural view of a graphene-alumina porous composite material prepared by an example of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an electrode assembled by the graphene-alumina porous composite material prepared in the embodiment of the present invention.
Detailed Description
The first embodiment is as follows:
the embodiment of the invention provides a preparation method of a graphene-alumina porous composite material capable of being used as a capacitive deionization electrode, which comprises the following steps:
(1) adding ammonium carbonate into graphene oxide dispersion liquid with the concentration of 0.05g/L (the particle size of graphene oxide is 50nm) to dissolve the ammonium carbonate to form mixed slurry with the ammonium carbonate content of 1 wt%;
(2) completely immersing a porous alumina sheet with most probable pore diameter of 1 mu m and porosity of 30% into the mixed slurry, treating in-0.9 bar vacuum for 30min to enable graphene oxide and ammonium carbonate to be uniformly combined on the surface of alumina, and then carrying out heat treatment at 100 ℃ for 2h to enable the graphene oxide and the ammonium carbonate to be firmly combined; repeating the coating-heat treatment process for 10 times to obtain a firmly combined graphene oxide-aluminum oxide porous composite material;
(3) the graphene oxide-alumina porous composite material is subjected to thermal reduction treatment after being slowly heated to 1000 ℃ for 36 hours in a hydrogen atmosphere, and the graphene oxide is reduced to graphene with the resistance of 150 omega, so that the graphene oxide-alumina porous composite material capable of being used as a capacitive deionization electrode is obtained.
Example two:
the embodiment of the invention provides a preparation method of a graphene-alumina porous composite material capable of being used as a capacitive deionization electrode, which comprises the following steps:
(1) adding ammonium bicarbonate into graphene oxide dispersion liquid with the concentration of 0.15g/L (the particle size of graphene oxide is 200nm) to dissolve the ammonium bicarbonate to form mixed slurry with the ammonium bicarbonate content of 3 wt%;
(2) completely immersing a porous alumina sheet with most probable pore diameter of 2 mu m and porosity of 35% into the mixed slurry, treating in-0.9 bar vacuum for 20min to enable graphene oxide and ammonium bicarbonate to be uniformly combined on the surface of alumina, and then carrying out heat treatment at 95 ℃ for 3h to enable the graphene oxide and the ammonium bicarbonate to be firmly combined; repeating the coating-heat treatment process for 5 times to obtain a firmly combined graphene oxide-aluminum oxide porous composite material;
(3) the graphene oxide-alumina porous composite material is subjected to thermal reduction treatment by slowly heating to 900 ℃ for 24 hours in a hydrogen atmosphere, and the graphene oxide is reduced to graphene with the resistance of 200 omega, so that the graphene oxide-alumina porous composite material capable of being used as a capacitive deionization electrode is obtained.
Example three:
the embodiment of the invention provides a preparation method of a graphene-alumina porous composite material capable of being used as a capacitive deionization electrode, which comprises the following steps:
(1) adding ammonium bicarbonate into graphene oxide dispersion liquid with the concentration of 0.10g/L (the particle size of graphene oxide is 100nm) for dissolving to form mixed slurry with the ammonium bicarbonate content of 2 wt%;
(2) completely immersing a porous alumina sheet with most probable pore diameter of 1.5 mu m and porosity of 32% into the mixed slurry, treating in-0.9 bar vacuum for 30min to ensure that the graphene oxide and the ammonium bicarbonate are uniformly combined on the surface of the alumina, and then carrying out heat treatment at 100 ℃ for 2h to ensure that the combination is firm; repeating the coating-heat treatment process for 8 times to obtain a firmly combined graphene oxide-aluminum oxide porous composite material;
(3) the graphene oxide-alumina porous composite material is subjected to thermal reduction treatment by slowly heating to 950 ℃ for 30 hours in a hydrogen atmosphere, and the graphene oxide is reduced to graphene with the resistance of 180 ohms, so that the graphene oxide-alumina porous composite material capable of being used as a capacitive deionization electrode is obtained.
As shown in fig. 1, in the graphene-alumina porous composite material prepared in the embodiment of the present invention, graphene is uniformly coated on the surfaces of all alumina particles. The three-point bending method is adopted to test the flexural strength, and the Archimedes method and the dynamic nitrogen adsorption method are respectively adopted to measure the porosity and the specific surface area, and the test results are shown in Table 1.
Table 1 performance index of graphene-alumina porous composite material prepared in the embodiment of the present invention
As shown in fig. 2, a graphene-alumina porous composite material prepared in the embodiment of the present invention is subjected to silver screen coating on one surface, two sheets are respectively marked as a positive electrode and a negative electrode and connected to a lead to form a graphene-alumina porous composite electrode (i.e., an adsorption electrode), the adsorption electrode is connected to an external power supply with a voltage of 0.6-1.2V, and 100-1000 mg/L NaCl, KCl, CaCl, and CaCl is applied2The solution was subjected to ion adsorption, and the performance index thereof is shown in Table 2.
Table 2 adsorption performance of the graphene-alumina porous composite electrode formed in the example of the present invention
*The solution is NaCl solution, KCl solution, CaCl2And (3) solution.